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Yes, you really do have to send a thank-you note after a job interview—here's why
CNBC ^ | April 30, 2019 | Kerri Anne Renzulli

Posted on 10/24/2019 12:53:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, you need to send a thank-you note after a job interview.

This might be unwelcome news, especially if you sided against the somewhat old-fashioned practice at the center of the recent, highly contentious online debate surrounding an article by Business Insider executive managing editor Jessica Liebman. In a post for Business Insider, Liebman wrote that when she first started hiring, she came up with "a simple rule: We shouldn't move a candidate to the next stage in the interview process unless they send a thank-you email."

Plenty of people disagreed with Liebman, but her stance gets at the very heart of why it is always better as a job seeker to err on the side of caution and send a thank-you note: You never know what the hiring manager may consider a deal-breaker.

While not all hiring managers take thank-you notes as seriously as Liebman, 80% find such messages helpful when reviewing candidates, according to a survey by Accountemps.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: careers; hypocrisy; interviewing; interviews; jobs; liftisttripe
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I knew a manager who only hired people who sent hand-written ones.


21 posted on 10/24/2019 1:16:12 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: Psalm 73

Agreed.

It’s a shame this practice has fallen away with younger generations. But just sending a thank you note after receiving a gift appears to be dead too.

When did it become okay to be so put out at the prospect of sending a thank you note, that you no longer have to?


22 posted on 10/24/2019 1:16:38 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Showing Gratitude is a virtuous act, and people will notice


23 posted on 10/24/2019 1:17:56 PM PDT by HangnJudge (Kipling was right about Humanity)
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To: CodeToad

That’s a great point. I think a lot of jobs get hundreds of applications, but if you’ve interviewed, and sometimes more than once, they ought to let you know they made another choice, just so you’re not left feeling like you’re not worth dog crap to them.


24 posted on 10/24/2019 1:18:17 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: babble-on

My clients at the Job Service had great results when they implemented that technique. Now Des Moines, Iowa might be different than Manhattan, but people are people.


25 posted on 10/24/2019 1:18:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Mr Rogers
"While not all hiring managers take thank-you notes as seriously as Liebman, 80% find such messages helpful when reviewing candidates, according to a survey by Accountemps…"
26 posted on 10/24/2019 1:20:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: scrabblehack
I wouldn’t know what to say either, except thank you. And that certainly does’t require a note.
27 posted on 10/24/2019 1:21:32 PM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A place that let’s something as meaningless as a fake Thank You note decide if you are worthy to hire isn’t a place you want to work at anyhow.

Actually one time when hiring, we had 5 equal candidates for 2 positions, as the tie breaker I choose the two who didn’t send the Thank You notes. They worked out fine.


28 posted on 10/24/2019 1:22:49 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Mr Rogers

It may be desperate.

But so is waiting to hear back after an interview.

Waiting to hear a call that never comes.


29 posted on 10/24/2019 1:23:33 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: kosciusko51

> Does a thank-you email count?

Yep. I’m in software development and people hiring me would think you’re a little quirky for sending snail mail.

Worse yet, you’d look like maybe a luddite.


30 posted on 10/24/2019 1:23:39 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Retrofitted

lol

or, if she doesnt drop you off, and then come pick you up, after changing your bedsheets.


31 posted on 10/24/2019 1:25:08 PM PDT by QualityMan
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To: PGR88
It is amazing how many people go in for a job interview knowing they will get a drug test and knowing they will fail it, isn't it? I guess they are just trying to keep their unemployment checks coming or something of the sort.

The very day President Trump was sworn in, I went to an interview where the drug tester actually came in to collect a pee sample before the first interview question. That was a first, but it made sense. Why waste time with an interview if they can't pass a drug test?

32 posted on 10/24/2019 1:25:17 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: LIConFem

How about thanking them for the interview and asking them if it’s OK to call them next week to see how the selection process is going?

That shows gratitude AND a continued interest.


33 posted on 10/24/2019 1:27:06 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t expect any potential employer to send you an acknowledgement of application or rejection notice these days. They cull data but rarely respond unless they are calling you in:


34 posted on 10/24/2019 1:29:51 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hiring managers are often times shorthanded and stressed during the interview process due to increased business or a staff termination. It sucks and the hiring manager is under tremendous pressure to get it right.

I never received a thank you card from anyone that was later terminated, used drugs, threatened people at work or knowingly stole from the company.

35 posted on 10/24/2019 1:31:04 PM PDT by caltaxed (ake)
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To: billorites
but my habit has always been to sleep with heavy stock executive stationery so that the thank you note will be infused with my scent.

I think that works better for a woman. I once had a long distance relationship, and the scented stationery always got me.
36 posted on 10/24/2019 1:32:49 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (Sutor, ne ultra crepidam--Appelles of Kos)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Every job I ever had, and there were only a few, I obtained because I had written a thank you note. I was told that every single time.

Nothing replaces good manners.


37 posted on 10/24/2019 1:42:22 PM PDT by siamesecats (God closes one door, and opens another, to protect us.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Utter waste of time, just keep looking, don’t waste your time doing stuff like writing a thank you job for an interview. They aren’t doing you a favor by interviewing you, give me a break.


38 posted on 10/24/2019 1:43:43 PM PDT by GulfMan
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To: siamesecats

I don’t believe you but it sounds nice to say.


39 posted on 10/24/2019 1:45:08 PM PDT by GulfMan
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To: HotHunt

Not only that, I always have saved or came up with one follow up question for every person I interview with (in my career it’s not uncommon to have 5 and as many as 9 interviews starting with company recruiter and working up to CEO) to keep them engaged.


40 posted on 10/24/2019 1:45:52 PM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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